First the Olympic diving pool in Rio turned green, and that was weird. Then, on Friday, Games officials closed it to decontaminate the water. That was even weirder. Then a German diver said that the ...

The outdoor Olympic diving pool, which turned a startling shade of green Tuesday, is now closed. It reportedly smells like farts and may be causing eye itchiness among athletes. Since Tuesday, Olympic ...

A diving pool at the Rio Olympics turned green Tuesday when algae entered the water, stunning athletes and spectators. The water in the diving well at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre had been blue on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... RIO DE JANEIRO — Green, not gold, was the color of the day at the Olympic diving venue. Sure, China won its third consecutive gold medal on Tuesday, but the ...

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It turns out the murky green water was just the start of athletes' woes at the Rio aquatics center. Now the water athletes' have to contend with eye-stinging amounts of chlorine saturating the pool, ...

British diver Tom Daley and his fellow competitors on Tuesday worried about the murky green color of the diving pool. By The Associated Press Olympic_Diving_Rio - Getty - H 2016 Green, not gold, was ...

Nine world or Olympic records have already fallen in Rio, but credit could belong to the architects’ design and technology of the pool and venue. RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio’s Olympic pool is certainly not ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic officials gave up on cleaning the green-tinged water in one of the pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center. Instead, they began draining it Saturday and planned to transfer ...

A North Texan is helping to make this year’s Olympic water-based events possible with his company’s state-of-the-art pools. Jon Cleveland personally oversaw the pools used in Omaha last week for the ...